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The BDD Quiz Part II: Congrats to our first ever winner Polymath.

Ok, that's me. :lol: It's opium, first recorded use around 4-5000BC by the Sumerians where it was known as 'Hul Gil', plant of joy, some 2000 odd years before first recorded reference to tea drinking in China.
 
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We have a winner.

Nice one vades.

The tropane derivatives - belladonna alkaloids, anticholinergic deleriants.

1. Sepher - 8 points
2. atm23 - 3 points
2. skillet - 3 points
3. PJKT2501 - 2 points
3. Vader - 2 points
4. JAY.DEE - 1 point
4. SerotonergicHaze - 1 point
 
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If I wasn't feeling magnanimous I'd be telling you and Vader to get to fuck and asking for evidence, possibly cos I barely even know what any of those things are and it would be interesting to read up on them further, but mainly cos I'm a bad fucking loser!? :\

*glowers*
 
Sepher said:
If I wasn't feeling magnanimous I'd be telling you and Vader to get to fuck and asking for evidence, possibly cos I barely even know what any of those things are and it would be interesting to read up on them further, but mainly cos I'm a bad fucking loser!? :\

*glowers*
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Erowid: Datura Vault.

These drugs are not usually regarded as psychedelic, although they have a great deal in common historically, culturally, and pharmacologically with other drugs taken for their mind-altering powers. They are called anticholinergic because they block the action of acetylcholine, a nerve transmitter substance that controls the contraction of skeletal muscles and also plays an important role in the chemistry of the brain. They are called deliriants because their effects at high doses include incoherent speech, disorientation, delusions, an hallucinations, often followed by depression and amnesia for the period of intoxication. The classical anticholinergic deliriants are the belladonna alkaloids:

These tropane derivatives, the most powerful and important of which is scopolamine, are found in differing concentrations in various plants of the Nightshade Family or Solanaceae, among them deadly nightshade (Atropa belladona), mandrake (Mandragora officinarum), black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), jimsonweed (Datura stramonium, and over twenty other species of henbane and datura. Of all psychoactive drugs , only alcohol has been in use for so long over such a large part of the world. For thousands of years on all inhabited continents the belladonna alkaloids have been a tool of shamans and sorcerers, who take advantage of the sensations they evoke to leave their bodies, soar through the air, or change into an animal in their imagination. They also produce toxic organic symptoms like headache, dry throat, loss of motor control, blurred vision, and greatly increased heart rate and and body temperature; death from paralysis and respiratory may occur.

The belladonna alkaloids are so terrifying and incapacitating - the physical effects often so unpleasant, and the loss of contact with ordinary reality so complete - that they are used only with great caution and rarely for pleasure. For the same reasons, ironically, they are not regarded as a drug abuse problem and can be bought in small doses on perscription or in over-the-counter sedatives and pills for asthma, colds, and motion sickness.
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They're only responsible for some of the craziest trip reports on erowid :D eg. http://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Datura.shtml

Good call Vader, I'm still kinda suprised it wasn't the xanthines, I guess coffee and tea and all maybe weren't as popular a long time ago as they are now.

Edit: Cocaine.HCl is hygroscopic and gets chunky again?
 
DING DING DING Skillet!

1. Sepher - 8 points
2. skillet - 4 points
2. atm23 - 3 points
3. PJKT2501 - 2 points
3. Vader - 2 points
4. JAY.DEE - 1 point
4. SerotonergicHaze - 1 point

Question to come. Probably in a bit over an hour after I have lunch.
 
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